The Turkish government defended a proposed tax on credit cards on Tuesday, saying it was needed to fund the arms industry and protect the country as conflict rages in its neighbourhood.

Indignant Turks, who already face double-digit inflation, called their banks to lower their credit limits after the ruling AKP party submitted the tax bill to parliament on Friday.

The legislation comes as Israel's conflicts with Tehran-backed Islamist militants in Gaza and Lebanon, and missile strikes by Iran, have raised global concerns that a broader war could erupt in the Middle East.

Iranian commander Esmail Qaani on Tuesday appeared in public after weeks of absence to attend the funeral ceremony for general Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed last month in Lebanon.

Nilforoushan, a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.

The funeral procession for the slain Iranian general began at the Imam Hossein Square in central Tehran Tuesday morning, according to a live broadcast on state television.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Tuesday the idea of a ceasefire in Lebanon that would leave Hezbollah close to his country's northern border, as the militant group threatened to widen its attacks.

Netanyahu's comments came as the United States ramped up pressure over Israel's conduct of the wars in Lebanon and Gaza, criticising the recent bombing of Beirut and demanding that more aid reach the Palestinian territory.

Thousands of Cubans, led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and other leaders of the communist-run island, marched in Havana on Monday to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

The demonstrators, including some 250 Palestinian medical students living in Cuba, carried a large banner that read "Long live free Palestine," while the president and his allies wore traditional keffiyeh scarves.

United Nations peacekeepers will stay in all positions in Lebanon despite Israeli calls for them to move amid intensifying fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and five blue helmets suffering injuries, the UN peacekeeping chief said Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday again called for the peacekeepers in southern Lebanon to move from certain areas close to Israel's border with Lebanon, insisting it was "completely false" that Israeli forces targeted the UN force, UNIFIL.

The International Committee for the Red Cross called on Monday for Lebanon's health care system to be protected after reports that Israeli strikes hit medical staff during fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

"I really... appeal for the protection of healthcare workers, for ambulances, for hospitals, for primary health centres," said Nicolas Von Arx, the ICRC's regional director for the Near and Middle East.

"Attacks on health facilities are deeply worrying," he added.

The Palestinian ministry of health said Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including a teenager, on Monday in the West Bank city of Jenin which has seen repeated military raids.

The Israeli military, when contacted by AFP, said it was "looking into the reports".

In a statement, the Ramallah-based health ministry said the two Palestinians were "shot dead by the occupation army".

When volunteer Lebanese rescue worker Aya Wehbeh was called to respond to a rare Israeli strike in central Beirut last week, she was terrified it had hit her family home.

"This period is really tough," the 25-year-old said days after the twin strikes on the Nweiri and Basta districts of the capital left at least 22 dead.

"I could have ended up pulling my mother, father, aunt or neighbour from the rubble," she said.

"I've been volunteering for five years but this ongoing offensive in very different from the other years."

Lebanon's health ministry said at least 21 people died Monday in a rare Israeli strike on a northern Christian-majority village, far from Hezbollah strongholds, with DNA tests being conducted to identify body parts.

A Lebanese security official told AFP the building "housed families displaced from Lebanon's south, and was targeted shortly after a man had arrived in a car".

He requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

People living near an Israeli army base hit by a Hezbollah drone strike described a loud explosion then multiple ambulances arriving, as fresh rocket fire and air raid sirens sent them rushing to shelters on Monday.

Four soldiers were killed Sunday night by a Hezbollah drone at the base in the Binyamina area -- the deadliest strike on Israeli soil since the war between Israel and the Lebanese armed group intensified last month.

Emergency services that helped transport the wounded to hospital said more than 60 were injured.